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thanks for going through that with us. when we see the president tomorrow we're going to see all of what you just mentioned. i think the things that are sexiest to america right now are guns and sequestration. the guns are sexiest to washington. we really appreciate your in sights, again. michael tomasky newsweek and the daily beast. >> up next, a group of democratic congressman will bring victims of gun violence to the state of the union address. we'll speak with the representative who put that idea in motion, right after the break. annual state of the union address. he'll address gun control, immigration reform, and the economy. we however, promise to bring you a current perspective. only on current tv. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone's ready with the know how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announc
thanks for going through that with us. when we see the president tomorrow we're going to see all of what you just mentioned. i think the things that are sexiest to america right now are guns and sequestration. the guns are sexiest to washington. we really appreciate your in sights, again. michael tomasky newsweek and the daily beast. >> up next, a group of democratic congressman will bring victims of gun violence to the state of the union address. we'll speak with the representative who...
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he joins us from newton, massachusetts. charlie, welcome back into the war room. >> hi, michael hang on one second. i feed that. >> well done, well done. been preparing it all day i'm sure charlie. >> prop gag are you kidding? >> literally watergate. how about that? they will me what did you think overall of this speech no i thought it a really compelling speech in both about policy but really about politics. >> yeah, i was very taken, first of all he has me every time he uses the hard and necessary work of self government. that line just plays me. i was very taken by the refrain of essentially telling congress to do its job look, vote on this stuff. i that the to was very compelling. i thought it was a message that was aimed less at the congress than the people out there pointing out saying hey you guys out there may not agree with me, but let's debate, let's vote on these things. >> did you sense this was a different president obama than we would have seen in say his third state of the union? i'm just picking one of his f
he joins us from newton, massachusetts. charlie, welcome back into the war room. >> hi, michael hang on one second. i feed that. >> well done, well done. been preparing it all day i'm sure charlie. >> prop gag are you kidding? >> literally watergate. how about that? they will me what did you think overall of this speech no i thought it a really compelling speech in both about policy but really about politics. >> yeah, i was very taken, first of all he has me every...
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thank you so much for joining us in the war room. tell us about what your group does and how that fits in exactly with what secretary clinton's initiative is. >> we design and manufacture clean burning cook stoves. our specialty is to do that in-country. we go to kenya to manufacture millions of clean-burning cook stoves. >> michael: how big of a threat is this to the environment? how big is this to health? should we all be concerned about this? >> absolutely. we look at how people are using bio mass. it's either wood or charcoal. if people are using wood,s the equivalent of them being exposed to 4,000 cigarettes per day of secondhand smoke. watching 100 episodes of man "mad men." it's actually bankrupting families. a family made spend $500 a year on charcoal. so 30% of their income, and charcoal production is destructive. ten tons of wood to create one ton of charcoal. it's an enormous issue and it's coming it the fore and having hillary clinton the spokesperson, the female pope, if there was such a thing the pope of the cook stove
thank you so much for joining us in the war room. tell us about what your group does and how that fits in exactly with what secretary clinton's initiative is. >> we design and manufacture clean burning cook stoves. our specialty is to do that in-country. we go to kenya to manufacture millions of clean-burning cook stoves. >> michael: how big of a threat is this to the environment? how big is this to health? should we all be concerned about this? >> absolutely. we look at how...
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it shows how many of us hold you biases that many of us don't know we have. a professor of social ethics at harvard and the author of "blind spot." she joins us from cambridge massachusetts, welcome inside "the war room." >> michael: thank you very much, michaelroom. >> thank you very much michael. >> michael: you weather are those blind spots. >> we use it as a metaphor. we know that our eyes have a blind spot such that when information fall on that part of the retina, we don't see it simply aren't the rods and cones to pick up that information. likewise, our minds also contain blind spots where information resides that is simply not acceptable to us. >> michael: how dangerous is it that we don't recognize that we have these blind spots. >> it's just about as dangerous no to the no about the blind spots in your mind as it is to not know about your hypertension or insulin level or how your lungs are functioning or how your blood is flowing, all these things about our bodies. many of the disease that is we have are now controllable in part because we devised l
it shows how many of us hold you biases that many of us don't know we have. a professor of social ethics at harvard and the author of "blind spot." she joins us from cambridge massachusetts, welcome inside "the war room." >> michael: thank you very much, michaelroom. >> thank you very much michael. >> michael: you weather are those blind spots. >> we use it as a metaphor. we know that our eyes have a blind spot such that when information fall on that...
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he comes to us from washington, d.c. welcome back inside "the war room." >> thanks for having me back. >> michael: so how damaging actually will these cuts be to the president's second term agenda. >> it's important to note when you talk about sequestration it touches every part of the american economy, big prior advertise that the president just outlined in his state of union address. >> michael: so when i hear you say that and when i think about what the effect might be on the president, i wonder if this is a set up. is this mitch mcconnell saying i'm going to set this economy up to fail. i want to hurt the president and see him not succeed and see democrats not move forward. is some of that in play here? >> i think it's fair to say that the republican leadership have certainly dug their heels in now, if you listen to john boehner saying i agree with secretary panetta that sequestration would be damaging. but they are saying this is the president's invention. >> michael: it's good public relations, but the president co
he comes to us from washington, d.c. welcome back inside "the war room." >> thanks for having me back. >> michael: so how damaging actually will these cuts be to the president's second term agenda. >> it's important to note when you talk about sequestration it touches every part of the american economy, big prior advertise that the president just outlined in his state of union address. >> michael: so when i hear you say that and when i think about what the...
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he joins us next. we'll be right back. ♪ the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. like our delicious lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of succulent lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and lobster tacos. it's back, but not for long. [ woman ] our guests go crazy for lobsterfest. my favorite entree is the lobster lover's dream. what's yours? come celebrate lobsterfest and sea food differently. [clucking]. everyone wants to be the cadbury bunny. cause only he brings delicious cadbury crÈme eggs, while others may keep trying. nobunny knows easter better than cadbury! ♪ >> michael: last night the first lady appeared to present the oscar for best picture. right now brett ehrlich will appear to give in-depth commentary about it. everyone just calm down brett is talking now. >> why did you sleep so well last night? it's because you watched the o
he joins us next. we'll be right back. ♪ the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. like our delicious lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of succulent lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and lobster tacos. it's back, but not for long. [ woman ] our guests go crazy for lobsterfest. my favorite entree is the lobster lover's dream. what's...
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today he faulted congress for using a decade's old formula. what is he getting at when he says something like that? >> kennedy was sort of the hope for voting rights advocates that he is really the only person who could potentially be a swing on this, and he indicated which way he was leaning before. so at least the voting right's act is either -- section five at least will be completely cut out or curtailed in some capacity. but he said they were essentially rigging the system so that the states that they wanted to pay attention too would fit into the formula that they were using to decide which states actually have to go through this oversight process, the states that -- it's a lot of southern states and some various counties across the country that are subject to this. >> he is clearly the justice -- ryan he is clearly the justice we're going to be wanting to watch as this case comes up. very quickly when is the decision due? >> probably n late june. >> okay. ryan reilly of the "huffington post" thanks so much for doing that for us. how is
today he faulted congress for using a decade's old formula. what is he getting at when he says something like that? >> kennedy was sort of the hope for voting rights advocates that he is really the only person who could potentially be a swing on this, and he indicated which way he was leaning before. so at least the voting right's act is either -- section five at least will be completely cut out or curtailed in some capacity. but he said they were essentially rigging the system so that...
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he's with us in "the war room." stay with us. with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. real, gripping, current. documentaries... on current tv. i want we have big change on the climate change front. many were arrested at a keystone pipeline protest outside of the white house. and today bernie sanders and barbara boxer rolled out a big piece of climate change legislation with many of those activists standing behind them. their bill would do many good things. the great part about that, three firth of that money raised would go back to the american people. the rest would be invested in clean energy and renew bees. the bill would close the halliburton loophole so drinking water would be safe from fracking fluid. getting it through congress is quite another game. >> if congress won't act soon to protect future generations i will. i will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take now and in the future to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change and
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joining us from pensacola florida, is mike antonio. he hosts ring of fire with robert f kennedy and sam seder and president of the national trial lawyers association. welcome back in "the war room." >> how are you. >> michael: i'm well. i appreciate you being here to talk about this case. i want to know if this is any palpable feeling in florida. is that incident still etched in people's minds or have floridians moved past it and forgotten it. >> it's a sense of trying trying the case in the media in little segments. the first thing that is very important is the defense is trying to remove the race card from this case. if you remember the feds investigated this, federal government investigated this as a hate crime. they wrote up the report and after looking at anything they concluded that race alone was not an issue. it changes the way the case is tried. this is a very capable defense lawyer down in central florida and he's basically letting these little snippets out in the media so-to-where you almost conclude it's coming down to basi
joining us from pensacola florida, is mike antonio. he hosts ring of fire with robert f kennedy and sam seder and president of the national trial lawyers association. welcome back in "the war room." >> how are you. >> michael: i'm well. i appreciate you being here to talk about this case. i want to know if this is any palpable feeling in florida. is that incident still etched in people's minds or have floridians moved past it and forgotten it. >> it's a sense of...
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coming to us via skype in washington, d.c. is journalist michael grunwald with this week's "time" article. welcome to "the war room." >> thank you. >> michael: i want to ask you about marco rubio. what sets him apart? is he different than mitch mcconnell? is he another tea party guy. >> he is a tea party guy. he's more conservative than mitch mcconnell and he has a lot in common with paul ryan, they're both conservative republicans who came of age in that post gingrich era. as i said in the piece rubio speaks partisan republican as his native tongue. mitt romney was speaking it as a second language. you can see how the republican party if they think that their only problems is that they need to improve their message and reach out to latinos better, rubio is an excellent communicator. he doesn't speak spanish. he's cuban-american. if they don't feel that they need to change their position on other issues, he's pretty down the line domestic policy, social policy he's pretty conservative. >> michael: when you say he's cuban-ameri
coming to us via skype in washington, d.c. is journalist michael grunwald with this week's "time" article. welcome to "the war room." >> thank you. >> michael: i want to ask you about marco rubio. what sets him apart? is he different than mitch mcconnell? is he another tea party guy. >> he is a tea party guy. he's more conservative than mitch mcconnell and he has a lot in common with paul ryan, they're both conservative republicans who came of age in that...
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he is coming to us from new york. rick thanks so much for joining me inside "the war room." >> thank you. >> jennifer: let me start with the bigger issue, which is the idea of liberalism comeback. and you wrote . . . so the question is, is liberal really no longer a dirty word? >> well, you know, it's interesting because the newspapers, the media, the -- if i may say the main stream media not the left media, or the right media, but the down the middle media now don't have any problem using that word and that shows that the fever -- the fever has lifted, and liberals can now maybe say their name. the president hasn't called himself a liberal yet, and politicians will be the last to say i'm a liberal, and they'll say it when everybody else is saying it, and they notice that they are not necessarily saying it in an insulting manner. and then i think it's a sign of nevertheless it's a sign of a return of some kind of morale to liberal politicians as well as just run of the mill progressives. >> jennifer: yeah, run of the
he is coming to us from new york. rick thanks so much for joining me inside "the war room." >> thank you. >> jennifer: let me start with the bigger issue, which is the idea of liberalism comeback. and you wrote . . . so the question is, is liberal really no longer a dirty word? >> well, you know, it's interesting because the newspapers, the media, the -- if i may say the main stream media not the left media, or the right media, but the down the middle media now don't...
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he's coming to us from new york. william, thank you for coming to "the war room" again. >> it's great to be here again. thank you for having me. >> jennifer: you bet. there have been investigations in the banks. no criminal cases against them. why bring this case against s & p before really the banks themselves have been brought to justice? >> well, first of all you know, i wonder what took the justice department so long in this s & p case. that's number one. number two that lawyer that represented s&p should be thanking his clients. his clients should be thanking their lucky stars this is only a civil litigation, not criminal because i'm telling you i have read these e-mails. these e-mails many of which have been included in state and other civil litigation that shareholders have brought and others have brought against s&p. this is the first time, of course that there has been a federal lawsuit. they're lucky it's only a civil lawsuit. this is incredibly incriminating. this will be settled because the last thing tha
he's coming to us from new york. william, thank you for coming to "the war room" again. >> it's great to be here again. thank you for having me. >> jennifer: you bet. there have been investigations in the banks. no criminal cases against them. why bring this case against s & p before really the banks themselves have been brought to justice? >> well, first of all you know, i wonder what took the justice department so long in this s & p case. that's number one....
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use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. it helps to have people around you... they say you're much bigger than this. and you are. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. >> jennifer: now i want to give you some feel as we dig deeper into the florida pole numbers to see how the candidates are trending less than 12 hours before the poles open. here's what we're starting with. first of all to give a sense of what the florida primary looks like. these 50 delegates are half of the 99 delegates that initially going to be awarded. >> jennifer: that was the first show and i admit it took me a little while to figure out that the camera with the red line red light was the one you're supposed to look at. lucky for you all michael shure is an old pro at this tv thing and i'm extremely proud to introduce him as the next host on monday. >> i'm very excited. i know it's bittersweet. i'm honored. the president always says in inauguration one of
use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. it helps to have people around you... they say you're much bigger than this. and you are. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. >> jennifer: now i want to give you some feel as we dig deeper into the florida pole numbers to see how the candidates are trending less than 12 hours before the poles open. here's what we're starting with. first of...